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Originally Posted by DGthe3
There are 2 there are two types of hybrid, series and parallel. If you can run gas only, electric only, or gas and electric you have a parallel hybrid. If you can run electric only, but use the gas engine to power the electric motors, its a series hybrid. Neither system has a maximum or minumum limit on electric only range before using the gas engine. Some parallel hybrids don't have an extra battery, they just use the regular battery under the hood. Meanwhile there are series hybrids that don't have a battery either, the limited storage requirements are taken care of with capacitors. At the other end of the spectrum, you have the plug in Prius and the Volt which can each go for miles and miles electrically, but in theory may never need gasoline. But its still a hybrid drivetrain.
The Volt is a hybrid. Supposedly, it was to be a series hybrid but it looks like it has a parallel capability too. Either way, its a hybrid and not an EV.
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If your definitions are correct, then why did GM call it an EV? But I would like to question that definition of a parallel hybrid. The way you worded it seems as if a car could be gasoline only, i.e. with no other power source besides gasoline, and still be called a parallel hybrid by that definition; this is unless this definition counts the addition of a simple battery found in every car as the other power source.